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stunnel 3:5.78-3

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DescriptionUniversal SSL tunnel for network daemons

The stunnel program is designed to work as SSL encryption wrapper between remote client and local (inetd-startable) or remote server. The concept is that having non-SSL aware daemons running on your system you can easily setup them to communicate with clients over secure SSL channel.

stunnel can be used to add SSL functionality to commonly used inetd daemons like POP-2, POP-3 and IMAP servers without any changes in the programs' code.

This package contains a wrapper script for compatibility with stunnel 3.x

MaintainerPeter Pentchev <roam@debian.org>
Changed ByPeter Pentchev <roam@debian.org>
Sponsorroam@debian.org
Distributionexperimental
Architectureany
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/stunnel.git (browse)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/stunnel
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Version3:5.78-3
Changed-ByPeter Pentchev
Architectureamd64 source
Distributionexperimental
DateTue, 28 Apr 2026 19:21:49 +0300
Sourcestunnel
Changelog
stunnel (3:5.78-3) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * Adjust some Lintian overrides.
   * Rename the package to stunnel, not stunnel4 any more:
     - rename the source package to stunnel
     - rename the main binary package to stunnel
     - add a transitional stunnel4 package only containing a single symlink;
       when the reverse dependencies are updated, this package will become
       a purely transitional one
     - drop the dh-sequence-single-binary virtual dependency since
       we build two binary packages now
     - rename most of the debian/stunnel4.* files to debian/stunnel.*
     - adapt the stunnel.sysusers file to create a user account and
       a group named stunnel, not stunnel4
     - adapt the stunnel.postinst file to rename the various */stunnel4/
       directories to */stunnel/ if they exist; keep the part that
       creates them if neither the old ones nor the new ones are there
     - try to remove the stunnel4 user account and group in the postinst
       script if upgrading from an earlier version
     - adapt the debian/* files to refer to stunnel instead of stunnel4
     - drop the 02-rename-binary patch
     - drop the PPP restart scripts; they will not work in a non-SysV-init
       environment anyway, and we do not even ship a SysV init script
       any more
     - drop the stunnel.default file, it is not used any more
     - ship an empty stunnel4.sysusers file to make sure the stunnel4
       user account and group are no longer automatically (re)created
.dsc
Package-Liststunnel deb net optional arch=any
stunnel4 deb oldlibs optional arch=any
Sectionnet
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: stunnel
Upstream-Contact: Michal Trojnara <Michal.Trojnara@stunnel.org>
Source: https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html
License: GPL-2+-openssl

Files: *
Copyright:
 (C) 1998-2026  Michal Trojnara <Michal.Trojnara@stunnel.org>
 (c) 2014 Mark Theunissen
License: GPL-2+-openssl

Files: src/stunnel3.in
Copyright: (C) 1998-2018  Michal Trojnara <Michal.Trojnara@stunnel.org>
License: GPL-2+

Files: debian/*
Copyright:
 (C) 1998-2001  Paolo Molaro <lupus@debian.org>
 (C) 2003-2007  Julien Lemoine <speedblue@debian.org>
 (C) 2007-2012  Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <rodrigo@debian.org>
 (C) 2013       Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
 (C) 2014-2026  Peter Pentchev <roam@debian.org>
License: GPL-2+-openssl

License: GPL-2+-openssl
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
 can be found in file "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2".
 .
 Linking stunnel statically or dynamically with other modules is making
 a combined work based on stunnel. Thus, the terms and conditions of the
 GNU General Public License cover the whole combination.
 .
 In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holder of stunnel gives you
 permission to combine stunnel with free software programs or libraries that
 are released under the GNU LGPL and with code included in the standard release
 of OpenSSL under the OpenSSL License (or modified versions of such code, with
 unchanged license). You may copy and distribute such a system following the
 terms of the GNU GPL for stunnel and the licenses of the other code concerned.
 .
 Note that people who make modified versions of stunnel are not obligated to
 grant this special exception for their modified versions; it is their choice
 whether to do so. The GNU General Public License gives permission to release
 a modified version without this exception; this exception also makes it
 possible to release a modified version which carries forward this exception.

License: GPL-2+
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
 can be found in file "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2".

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